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originally posted by: RUFFREADY
You took the words out of my brain lol!! Thanks ...we must remember there are a few not so bright people around and they just like to stir the pot, so
to say! lol!! or just be mean to be mean

You should also remember that other people. do not know if you are the person that named the video, so you should be clear about your position and
point that the thread title is the same as the video, as has been suggested many times to make it easier to find specific videos on ATS.

To me, it looks like more cases of white pixels, like the one I circled in yellow in the following image.

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originally posted by: UNIT76
i'm wondering what happens when a speck of dirt or something manages to find itself on the lens..
"zomg, a UFO has been following the mars rover!!"

There is already a speck of dust on the lens of the right Mast Cam (only the right). The dust has been there since they landed, and appears in every
picture from the right Mast Cam (upper-middle part of the images):

if you mean dead pixel....than I don't understand your premise...It would have to present on all pics...not just 2...unless later manually doctored
out.

Yes, Dead pixel is what i meant, but then what you said makes sense as it would be in other pictures, it's why i said it is on some but not in
others.. stuck pixel maybe?
(I would love it to be something else)

I love these jackholes who show up to post what "this more likely is" and deride the OP for the quality of the evidence. We already know it COULD be
a "dead pixil" (the debunkers best friend) or dust or reflection. What the video proposes is that here's something that shouldn't be there per
what we're told about Mars. But no, let's disregard all potential evidence of ufos because that's the cool thing to do here.

The following is my opinion as a member participating in this discussion.

originally posted by: howmuch4another
Is it possible that one of the many confirmed dust devils on mars could have picked up a quartz like particle that caught sunlight on its decent to
the surface?

I doubt it, for two reasons:
1 - although gravity is lower on Mars, making it easier for things to fly in the wind, the atmosphere is much less dense than on Earth (and we can see
that on the photos from Curiosity), so it's harder to float heavier particles.
2 - It would have to be a large particle to reflect the light like that at that distance (any distance that would made a dust devil remnants
invisible)

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Star and flag OP because trolls came right out of the woodwork for no reason what so ever. You even said it could be a camera problem. You did not
claim it was proof of anything and the trolls hit the ground running. I rarely post on this site anymore. They are the reason.

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